Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Quotes

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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